MANHATTAN, Kan. – The Purdue Soccer team earned a hard-fought, 2-1 victory at Kansas State on Sunday afternoon at Buser Family Park in Manhattan, Kansas.
The Boilermakers (3-3-0) took a 1-0 lead in the fifth minute and extended the advantage to 2-0 in the 25th. They then withstood having to play the final 47 minutes with 10 players after a second yellow card was shown in the 43rd minute. Despite being down a starter on the back line for the entire second half, Purdue continued to control possession while holding the Wildcats (2-3-1) to one goal, in the 87th minute.
Sophomore goalkeeper Sara Kile had one of the best performances of her career, as she made a career-best 11 saves to nearly double her previous best of six. Her final save was stopping a penalty kick in the 80th minute that at the time kept K-State goalless. Kile’s 11 saves are tied for fourth-most in a single game in program history and the most since Jordan Ginther also had 11 in a 2016 contest against Rutgers.
Junior forward Zoie Allen scored her first goal of the season in the fifth minute, and sophomore forward Gracie Dunaway netted her Big Ten-leading fourth of the season in the 25th minute. It was Dunaway’s first career game-winning goal. Junior midfielder Emily Mathews, who assisted on Allen’s score, led the team with two shots.
Purdue was out-shot 19-7, and K-State had a 12-5 advantage in shots on goal, though the visiting…
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